2 Cidco officers held for Airoli PAP plot fraud

File photoNAVI MUMBAI: A crime branch team has arrested two Cidco officers of the estate department for conniving with three agents and two builder partners.

They had allegedly forged Cidco’s lease deed and tripartite agreements for selling the town planning body’s 12.5% plot reserved for PAP in sector 20B of Airoli to partners of M/s Krushna Developers.

They also constructed a residential building on the PAP plot between 2012 and 2015 and even sold off the flats.

The arrested Cidco officers have been identified as Nazir Shaikh (50), the chief land surveyor, and Dattatray Mukadam (49), an assistant land surveyor. The estate agents have been identified as Prabhakar Mhatre, Sunil Phadake and Lavesh Jadhav.

Police inspector (EOW-2) Raju Sonawane said, “The CBD police had on January 8 arrested the accused builders—Raju Chaudhary from Airoli and Murji Patel from Koparkhairane. While one agent was arrested from Nerul village on March 20, the other two were arrested on April 8.”

The builders had constructed the building by fraudulently obtaining the CC from NMMC town planning department after submitting forged Cidco documents. The two accused builders have been released on bail.